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Jim, here's a little tutorial about how one smokehouse makes country ham:

http://dardenscountrystore.com/HamminItUp.html


My wife went to school with the woman who runs it with her husband. We got the tour of the smokehouse, it was pretty cool. New York Times did a big write-up on 'em about 10 years ago.

Interesting fact, they coat the hams with black pepper while they're smoking, to keep bugs off. IIRC, they told us the black pepper was one of their biggest expenses, they use a ton of it.